tool
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The trophy is a giant version of the traditional wooden tool used for stirring porridge, thick soups, and stew.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Kyiv also dismissed reports that its F-16 fighter jets -- another key tool used against jet-powered drones -- could be grounded due to delays in maintenance inspection and the supply of parts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The explosion of agentic AI has driven a wave of demand for CPUs, which coordinate different tasks, route tool calls and pass data between subagents, it writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Sensitivity measures how successfully the system identifies manipulated videos, making the particularly high sensitivity important for a screening tool designed to keep fake content from slipping through.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
I reached out and touched the end of a muddy wooden stick, a digging tool of some kind, sitting next to a small wooden hoe beside me on the boat.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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These analyses aim to gauge the capabilities of autonomous AI tools, as their lapses fuel fears of losing control over the technology.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Instead, we expect to see more customer AI tools embedded within each banks’ own digital offering,” Citi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"These images might be altered using photo-editing tools or filters, people standing in particular poses, use of lighting, lots could even be AI-generated," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Student success: Irwin wants to address barriers to student success and enrollment by doing more to demonstrate how a community college education can give them the tools necessary to succeed in their chosen career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“We still have all the noncandy tools in the closet, though!” she said, yanking the door open.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
In return, Mexico offered to ship to Austria various objects from Maximilian’s ill-fated reign, including a gilded carriage in which he and his wife, Carlota, tooled around the capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
Rowe started back up in July 2020 with a four-episode run of “Dirty Jobs: Rowe’d Trip,” in which he tooled around the country in an RV, and the main show returned in January 2022.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
They are more like perfectly tooled but crazy little machines, and we violate science when we try to read human meanings in their arrangements.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Pioneer bought additional tooling and experimented with changes in temperature and curing times to better understand and fix the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
But he warns that if training becomes too narrow, apprentices can end up lacking a proper understanding of materials, methods, tooling, quality and process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yet the only reason he’s out here racking up steps by the hundreds on a recent morning is because he was tooling around in his sculpture studio before I arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Enterprise products are currently more likely to opt in to other models with clear controls, compliance tooling, auditability, data-governance guarantees and workflow integrations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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